Breaking Point

Mob of the angry and the sad Pushed back and undermined We fight for just one step But we're losing our minds Held back by batons and smoke bombs Blinded by the light and debri You try to help me but you're worse off than me I try to help you but I'm worse off than you Everyone's pain mixed together Trapped in here Swirling and circling like boiling rice Stuck in one general place The desire to help everyone When I need someone's shoulder to stand I'm screaming inside while I convince you that you're fine It's all just one crazy lie I fall to my hands and knees Like an animal I scream Apologizing but losing it at the same time I become the beast that's inside my mind

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Most of my poetry comes from the distress and darkness I faced in my adolescence. When the world broke me down I would disappear into my mind and only come back once I had writeen something. Often I'd have no memory of writing it. This particular poem is about the struggle of trying to help others who were burdened by the world's cruelness while trying unsuccessfully to keep myself sane. There is little hope written in this poem but poetry itself was my hope.

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The number one question our editors receive is—what do the editors and judges look for when judging the contest? The number one answer we give is creativity. Unlike prose, writing composed in everyday language, poetry is considered a creative art and requires a different type of effort and a certain level of depth. Of the thousands of poems entered in each contest, the ones that catch our judges’ eyes are the ones that remove us, even just slightly, from the scope of everyday life by using language that is interesting, specific, vivid, obscure, compelling, figurative, and so on. Oftentimes, poems are pulled aside for a second look based simply on certain words that intrigued the reader. So first and foremost, be sure your poetry is written using creative language. Take general ideas and make them personal. In his infamous book De/Compositions: 101 Good Poems Gone Wrong, W. D. Snodgrass imparts, “We cannot honestly discuss or represent our lives, any more than our poems, without using ideational language.”